Per the recently published 320 Fleet newsletter, the UCH Board of Directors in December approved a $121 million plan to fly the Bus fleet to 2029 via a Service Life Extension program (various mandated things plus reliability and other improvements now available-Sharklets retrofit perhaps?). Rather then the first Bus being parked this spring, only 50 flying past 2020, and with all of them parked by 2025, now the first won't occur until 2021, with over 100 still flying past 2025.

Good news.

I think the 747s won't last that long. 787s may get pushed back a little by about a year but we may see 777-300s, about 10, come on property soon. Cross your fingers.

That'd be good. I'm all for growth. It benefits all of us. Especially the bigger airplanes, because guys those vacancies create the most backfills, and the most movement.

I hope to see them start using the smaller busses and guppies on routes currently flown by RJs. Would be nice to get that flying back at mainline, keep the 75/76s to add more seats on routes flown by those aircraft, and get more 787 and 777 to do the same. Great for everybody...even the RJ guys as that means more jobs at mainline